Meaning not yet researched.
Yousef: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 349 in 2025. Its best rank was #725 in 2017.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #725 in 2017; #745 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Yousef in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#745 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2017, at #725.
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Yousef: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 349 boys in 2025. Peak: #725 in 2017 · most boys in one year: 349 (2025).
In 2025, 349 US boys were named Yousef, making it the 745th most common boys’ name of the year, up 22 places from #767 in 2024. That is 18 more than the 331 boys named Yousef in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #725, reached in 2017. The most boys given the name in a single year was 349, in 2025. For comparison, it was #789 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Yousef in 52 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1970 with 5 babies. In all, 7,008 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,718 babies named Yousef.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,988 US boys were named Yousef; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 349. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,894 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Yousef ranked highest in Michigan in 2025, at #306 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Yusuf (11,455 babies since 1880), Yosef (10,612 babies since 1880), Youssef (3,705 babies since 1880) and Yusef (3,116 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Youssif and Youseph are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Youssif (34), Youseph (6).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Yousef in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 33 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 32 | #306 | #389 |
| Illinois | 30 | #362 | #521 |
| New Jersey | 20 | #410 | #395 |
| Ohio | 22 | #498 | #727 |
| New York | 33 | #499 | #549 |
| Virginia | 14 | #561 | #730 |
| Connecticut | 5 | #570 | #388 |
| Pennsylvania | 14 | #660 | #1,327 |
| Florida | 25 | #660 | #674 |
| Louisiana | 7 | #666 | — |
| Massachusetts | 7 | #687 | #509 |
| California | 35 | #753 | #742 |
| Tennessee | 9 | #772 | — |
| Texas | 32 | #843 | #814 |
| North Carolina | 10 | #868 | #832 |
| Colorado | 5 | #960 | — |
| Washington | 6 | #995 | #596 |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,032 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 349 | #745 |
| 2024 | — | — | 331 | #767 |
| 2023 | — | — | 297 | #826 |
| 2022 | — | — | 255 | #907 |
| 2021 | — | — | 257 | #896 |
| 2020 | — | — | 262 | #865 |
| 2019 | — | — | 312 | #763 |
| 2018 | 5 | #18,065 | 286 | #793 |
| 2017 | — | — | 330 | #725 |
| 2016 | — | — | 309 | #775 |
| 2015 | — | — | 296 | #789 |
| 2014 | — | — | 307 | #765 |
| 2013 | — | — | 251 | #855 |
| 2012 | — | — | 235 | #892 |
| 2011 | — | — | 188 | #1,022 |
| 2010 | — | — | 199 | #993 |
| 2009 | — | — | 184 | #1,042 |
| 2008 | — | — | 177 | #1,066 |
| 2007 | — | — | 146 | #1,214 |
| 2006 | — | — | 119 | #1,366 |
| 2005 | — | — | 153 | #1,080 |
| 2004 | — | — | 152 | #1,060 |
| 2003 | — | — | 122 | #1,209 |
| 2002 | — | — | 156 | #1,002 |
| 2001 | — | — | 129 | #1,109 |
| 2000 | — | — | 144 | #1,020 |
| 1999 | — | — | 102 | #1,234 |
| 1998 | — | — | 110 | #1,145 |
| 1997 | — | — | 74 | #1,467 |
| 1996 | — | — | 76 | #1,399 |
| 1995 | — | — | 65 | #1,490 |
| 1994 | — | — | 70 | #1,408 |
| 1993 | — | — | 54 | #1,661 |
| 1992 | — | — | 43 | #1,913 |
| 1991 | — | — | 46 | #1,767 |
| 1990 | — | — | 41 | #1,907 |
| 1989 | — | — | 42 | #1,830 |
| 1988 | — | — | 49 | #1,524 |
| 1987 | — | — | 40 | #1,708 |
| 1986 | — | — | 31 | #1,960 |
| 1985 | — | — | 36 | #1,723 |
| 1984 | — | — | 28 | #1,977 |
| 1983 | — | — | 30 | #1,863 |
| 1982 | — | — | 17 | #2,830 |
| 1981 | — | — | 28 | #1,994 |
| 1980 | — | — | 25 | #2,161 |
| 1979 | — | — | 12 | #3,565 |
| 1978 | — | — | 10 | #3,853 |
| 1975 | — | — | 13 | #3,075 |
| 1974 | — | — | 5 | #6,003 |
| 1971 | — | — | 5 | #5,648 |
| 1970 | — | — | 5 | #5,427 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).